MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS/. On Monday, during the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed methods of cooperating to eliminate terrorists ensconced in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

"They continued discussing mechanisms of cooperation between our countries in fighting the terrorists, who take shelter in Syria, thereby favoring a political settlement of the years-long hostilities in Syria," the ministry said. "The parties also discussed other current international issues, including the conflicts in Ukraine and Yemen, the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation on the Korean Peninsula, as well as some aspects of bilateral relations."